Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game of sweeps-week roulette," warns Hewitt. Will part-time stars like Rose and Rather turn out to be mere window dressing? And with only one of the four correspondents picked so far under 55 years of age (Mabrey is 42), CBS isn't exactly solving one rap against 60 Minutes: its older-skewing audience. In the cold, cruel Nielsen world, even a high-minded newsmagazine has to watch its back. It could be replaced by sitcoms...
...bring them down. That's the ghetto right there." Inspired, Jay-Z sampled the song on his new album's title track, Hard Knock Life. Needless to say, the tune's original author was somewhat surprised by its new incarnation. "I thought musical theater was a million miles from rap," says Martin Charnin, "but I'm glad it's gone to a place I never imagined...
...exactly standard medical practice to call up a patient's rap sheet before prepping him for surgery, so you can hardly blame the doctors. Besides, a criminal past is no reason to deny someone medical treatment--even a treatment that is purely experimental and has nothing to do with saving lives...
...seen a number of albums push the boundaries of the music, making thoughtful attempts at mixing jazz with contemporary pop or, even more promisingly, world music. And so on one hand you have woodwind player Don Byron cutting Nu Blaxploitation (Blue Note), an album of overtly political funk and rap; it's not an entirely felicitous concept, but what a treat to hear Byron's clarinet--the fuddy-duddy instrument of Woody Allen!--snaking in and out of dark, fertile electric grooves. On the other hand you have saxophonist David Murray recording his latest album, Creole (Justin Time), in Guadeloupe...
...Which of the following is not a member of the rap group Wu Tang Clan...